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We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their …
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In this paper, we explore the recent gender wage gap trends in a sample of European countries with a new approach that … gender wage gap declined in the majority of the European countries. Similar to the U.S. experience, a part of this decline is …, the changes in returns to brain and brawn skills had a widening effect on the gender wage gap in Southern European …
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We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender … skills are important in determining mean wages, personality traits have little explanatory power. However, quantile … regressions indicate that personality traits do matter in certain parts of the conditional wage distribution, especially for wages …
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We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender … skills are important in determining mean wages, personality traits have little explanatory power. However, quantile … regressions indicate that personality traits do matter in certain parts of the conditional wage distribution, especially for wages …
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This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred...
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that there are gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. In particular …. However, the direction of the gender effect differs significantly by education. Only females among the college educated are …
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Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and … changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality …
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effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers …
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-driven categorization of required skill words and construct gender associations of different skill categories using word embeddings. Next …, we examine how different required skill categories correlate with log posted wages as well as explore how skills demand … varies with firm size. We find that female skills are associated with lower posted wages, potentially contributing to …
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This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data … component of the gender gap not explained by different characteristics. Our main findings are two-fold. First, in contrast with …
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